Olly Murs Quotes

My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.

I'm just trying to make music everybody can get happy to and vibe to and turn up to. So long as I keep making good music, everything's going to be OK.

I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

I just listen to my Katy Perry. It's just her mood toward her music. She's always happy and perky. So, I mean, I like to be happy. Might as well listen to happy music.

It has to do a lot more than just twerking. It's feel good music; it makes people have a good time. It doesn't matter what type of situation they're in, we bounce all around New Orleans. Weddings, birthday parties, funerals. The whole nine yards, and it's a happy music, it turns people from a frown to a happy smile.

We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.

I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel when I listen to Avicii's songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.

There are only couple songs that you can just hear and it'll put you in a great mood.

It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!